
Management of Emerging Public Health Issues and Risks
Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Changing Environment
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Description
Key Features
- Presents emerging risks from the technological, environmental, health, and energy sectors, as well as their social impacts
- Contextualizes emerging risks as new threats, existing threats in new locations, and known issues, which are newly recognized as risks due to increased scientific knowledge
- Includes case studies from around the world to reinforce concepts
Readership
Researchers and practitioners in public health and those studying emerging and chronic risks and disaster management
Table of Contents
Introduction to Emerging Risks
The exposome: a new tool for improved health risk assessmentPart 1: New Risks
1. Indoor Air and Public Health
2. Advanced manufacturing processes and technologies
3. Multi-dimensional Impacts of Nanotechnology on Public HealthPart 2: Known Risks in New Locations
4. The emergence of vector borne diseases in new location
5. Radioactive remains
6. Human spaces and inhumane species: social representations of the risk of invasionPart 3: Known Issues Now Recognized as Risks Due to an Increase in Scientific Knowledge and/or A Change in the Perception of the Population
7. Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Organisms as Environmental Contaminants of Emerging Concern: Addressing Global Health Risks
8. Risk perception of pharmaceutical residues in the aquatic environment and precautionary measures
9. Chemistry and psychology, cross views on pesticides Risks
10. Assessment and management of risks associated with antibiotic resistance in the environment
Product details
- No. of pages: 314
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: November 13, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128132913
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128132906
About the Editors
Benoit Roig
Affiliations and Expertise
Karine Weiss
Affiliations and Expertise
Veronique Thireau
Affiliations and Expertise
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